Studying YouTube for Context Awareness
Or, Why I need to learn about YouTube for myself and my Community
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog has posted an amazing video by Michael Wesch. Entitled “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube”, it goes into a bit of the history of this service and deeply into the implications of the communities that it is enabling.
The Context of Your Message is Vital
One of the more startling revelations is the academic evaluation of the “loss of context” or contextual collapse caused by the recording of a video that may or may not be seen by others, from the privacy of your own home.
The video is just over 55 minutes long, and I urge you to invest that time.
There will be more posts on this topic, and on this video in particular, as I unpack its contents and digest the implications. I will also be keeping one lesson from this video in the front of my mind as I begin to record vlogs for this site: provide a contextual stepping-off point for the viewer.
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